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MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence department is seeking a Senior Cyber Intelligence Engineer to join our team and apply your skills in support of our government and private sector sponsors. You will advance our research and innovation in cyber intelligence, lead projects and tasks, and collaborate across MITRE to help shape our work and capability. Our staff work with government, industry, and academia, enabling the public and private sector to make better decisions and implement solutions to complex challenges of national and global significance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Apply cyber intelligence expertise to help our sponsors solve their hardest problems, ranging from enabling defensive cyber operations, securing weapons systems, assessing threats to critical infrastructure, and analyzing intelligence reporting to enable cyber effects.
• Help sponsors understand how cyber intelligence fits into their organization, whether as a core part of their mission or as an important function in their security organization.
• Guide sponsors in building and advancing cyber intelligence capabilities and programs.
• Review sponsor tools and recommend best practices, analytic methodologies, and opportunities to integrate AI.
• Propose and perform research and development to advance the state of the art in cyber intelligence.
• Use or contribute to MITRE ATT&CK® to help the global cybersecurity community understand threat behaviors.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience; or the equivalent combination of higher education and real-world experience
• Demonstrated application of MITRE ATT&CK® within operational environments and other structured frameworks and analytic techniques (e.g., Diamond Model).
• Knowledge of adversary tradecraft and their utilization of cyber operations as a tool of military force and statecraft.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting technical analysis in written products and presentations
• Ability to obtain Top Secret clearance within one year from the date of hire
• Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on technical expertise in any of the following additional areas: adversary emulation, defensive cyber operations, cyber analytics & malware analysis, cyber deception and adversary engagement, cyber effects and reverse engineering, and cyber forensics.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$129,200 - $161,500 - $193,800 Annual

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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